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APPLIOATION FILED JAN.25, 1911.

Patented Mar. 5, 1912.

UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEFioE.

LUDWICK LAWN, 0F BRADY ISLAND, ,NEBRASKA DOOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. @1912.

Application led January 25, 1911.v Serial No. 604,845.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, LUDWICK a citizen of the United States, residing atBrady Island, in the county of Lincoln and State of Nebraska, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Doors, of which the following isa specification.

This invention relates to improvements in doors and hangers for the sameand has for its object the provision of an improved LARsoN,

Aform of hanger to slide upon a suitable track and adapted' to support aplurality of doors arranged to swing in opposite diJ rections vso thatin the event of a person desiring to gain access to the buildin or otherstructure to which the door is app ied, it will only be necessary tomove one of the swingingdoors to. open position inthe ordi- `narymanner, whereby the usual necessity of sliding the structurewill beeliminated.

With the above and other objects in view, which will more fullyhereinafter appear, the present invention consists in certain noveldetails of construction and arrangement of parts, hereinafter fullydescribed,

4 illustrated in the accompanying drawings,

and .more particularly pointed out in the appended claim; -it beingunderstood that various changes in the form, proportion, size, and minordetails of the device may be made, within the scope of the appendedclaim, without departing from` the spirit or sacrificing any of theadvantages of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of the specification;--Figure 1 is a fron-t elevation of the device -showin it applied to anordinary door-frame provided with the usual tracks. Fig, 2 is asectional end View on the line 2-2, ot' Fig. 1 and looking in thedirection of the arrow.

Similar numerals of -reference.'are employed to designate correspondingparts usual manner and provided with the tracks 7. Arranged to travel onthe upper sides of the ltracks7 are grooved wheels 8, the

said wheels being arranged in pairs and.

connectedby parts 9. The hanger embodying the sublect matter ofthe-present invention comprises a vertical body portion 10,

preferably formed of metallic tubing. andof any desired length,according to the disltance between the upper and lower ends of the dooropening. The upper end portion of the hanger isI rovided with aY-coupling which supports t e laterally extendin arms 11- and 12, the.said arms being preigerably formed of lengths of metallic tubing. Thearms 11 and 12 aie terminally provided with elbows 13, the said elbowsbeing directed inwardlyor toward the inner sides of the channels in thesides ofthe doorframe and screwed into the elbows are tubular extensions14, the inner ends of which are provided with upwardly curved elbows 15.Extending from the elbows l5 are upward extensions 1G, the upper ends ofwhich are provided with outwardly extendin'gelbows 17, said elbows 17receiving one end of tubular extensions 18, the opposite ends of whichare secured in any preferred manner to the of the body 10 is providedwith a Y-coupling 19 similar to the coupling at the opposite end of thebody, and secured to the coupling 19 are arms 2O .and 2l. The said arms20 and 21 are connected in a manner similai to the. arms 11 and 12 tothe parts 22 carrying the wheels which bear on the lower track 7. Withthis construction it will bemanifest when the parts are in position asshown in Fig. 1 and in the manner just described the hanger may be movedtoward either endv 'l of the tracks.

The doors which are of ordinary construction are ldesignated in generalby the nu'- meral 23. It will be seen now by reference to Fig. 1 thatthecombined widths of these doors correspond substantially to the width`of'tlie door opening in the structure to which the device is ap hed.The doors are connected with the iiody 10 by means of straps 24, thesaid straps 24 being secured for the greater portion of their. length tooneface of the doors and'terminating at one end in enlarged eyes toloosely receive ,the body 10 ofy the hanger. The doors are supportedonthe body 10 "by means of pins 25` which are i,

passed through transverse openings formed in the body 10 and formbearing surfaces for the lower ends of the eyes of the straps. With thisconstruction it will be manifest that the doors may be swungin op ositedirections so as to bear on oppositesi es of the body 10, whereupnecessaryto gain access to the buildingwithout slidingy the structure onthtracksv?,

on they will completely. seal the door opening so that when 1t isveither door may be swung open in the sual mannen l From 'the foregoing,it is evident that. I

bave provided a, device which is compara.-

tively simple in structure and inexpenslve to manufacture, embodying fewparts and these so' arranged that 'chev danger of derangemenfwill bereduced to 'a minimum.

I Claim A combined sliding and swinging door comprising a verticalhanger bifurcated at its upper end to provide offset. portions,supporting rollers Carried by the offset portions,

' the lower end of the hanger being bifur e swinging .door of a lengthIequa rollers, ing the length of the hangerlpivoted to the hanger on oneside, and a, plurality of doors ar ranged oppositely upon the door justmem tioned and being pivoted to the hanger, said doors being arrangedone above the other and for independent swinging movement.

In testimony whereof I aix my Signatre in presence of two Witnesses.

LUDWIGK LARSON.

Witnesses i H. L. AINLAY,

E. D. HA'WLEY.

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